Laura Clery on the Cost of Infidelity, Addiction, Divorce— and Rebuilding
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

Laura Clery on the Cost of Infidelity, Addiction, Divorce— and Rebuilding

B1IntermediateJuly 13, 20261h 17m

Comedian and creator Laura Clery built a media empire of 26 million followers, and then watched her marriage and her bank account collapse at the same time. Laura opens up about the financial wreckage of her divorce: how her ex-husband's relapse and addiction affected their financial lives, how she ended up paying two mortgages at once without fully understanding why, and the surreal moment she realized her water had been shut off. She walks Nicole through the costly mistake of choosing mediation over hiring a lawyer, why she couldn't afford the retainer when she finally needed one, and...

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After I had my daughter, I was struggling with postpartum depression. And yeah, we felt very distant. And then I caught him in a lie. And the next day, I'm getting bombarded with phone calls, text cousins, and my nanny's nephew.

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Are you okay? Oh my God. And I'm like, what is going on? Flora Cleary is a comedian with so many viral sketches, I do not even know where to start. She is a hugely successful creator with a combined 25 million followers and a new book out called

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What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Hotter. But today, Laura really opens up about how her marriage fell apart and took her financial life down with it. I continued being. And again, at the time, I did not know that he was buying drugs with that money.

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